Especially if it’s Ohio State. If a big-name school from one of the serious conferences finishes 11-1 … you have to like its chances of getting to the BCS title game. So the loser of USC-Ohio State … most certainly isn’t dead. For starters, if the loser goes 11-1 — its one loss will be […]

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Trojans have taken control. A couple of nice drives, an interception returned for touchdown by Rey Maualuga, and it’s 21-3. Could have been more, by the Trojans and Mark Sanchez tried to force a play at the end of the half and threw an interception. That would have been three points. The most impressive players […]

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Innocent until proven guilty, apparently, is how USC and coach Pete Carroll approach the Shareece Wright situation. Wright is the junior from Colton who has been charged with felony “resisting a police officer” in connection with a party in Colton last weekend. Wright, however, was the starting right cornerback for USC in its game with […]

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Bad day for the Pac-10 Conference. BYU 59, UCLA 0 Maryland 35, No. 23 Cal 27 TCU 31, Stanford14. That’s most of the entire second-tier (after USC) of the Pac-10 going down to (perhaps) one decent team (BYU) and two middling programs (Maryland, TCU). Washington will be thrashed by Oklahoma later today. Then, on Friday, […]

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I’m going to guess USC football fans were stunned, the first time they saw one of those Dos Equis commercials. They get to the end of the thing and the voice-over guy announces, “He is the most interesting man in the world” … And Pete Carroll is not in the picture. (It’s actor Jonathan Goldsmith, […]

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USC went into Charlottesville and trashed an opponent that went 9-4 last year. How Much It All Means isn’t clear, yet, because as good as the Trojans might be, it doesn’t look like Virginia is going to go 9-4 again, even in the declining ACC. Final score: USC 52, Virginia 7. And, yes, there were […]

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I’ve been blogging at this address for, oh, two whole months now, but … But almost nothing I have written here has gotten the attention that a post about O.J. Mayo and USC has in just a matter of days. I’m not sure what I could have written or posted, aside perhaps from video of […]

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(Warning. Sarcasm alert.) Wow. Never saw that coming. O.J. Mayo, most-pimped-college recruit since, oh, forever … might have received “improper benefits” (I believe that is the NCAA term) while playing basketball in his one-and-done Trojans career? I am shocked. Shocked. A guy agents and other sleaze balls have been hanging around since he was a […]

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Hope USC fans enjoyed that one season. O.J. and the lads. Because they’re all about to bolt and Tim Floyd will be starting over. Again. O.J. Mayo is a sure thing to turn pro. Ignore any ambivalent statements he might have made about coming back. Not gonna happen. The Trojans would be OK if Mayo, […]

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